One of the most emblematic figures of the South American Metal music scene, Eduardo "Picoroco" Navarrete was found dead in the evening of May 23rd in the bathroom of his mother's apartment.

The cause of death is still not clear but it is presumedly a heart attack.

Picoroco was active in the Metal scene from the beginning of the '80s and by the beginning of the '90s had started his own record label, Picoroco Records.

With the label he helped to produce and release acts like CRIMINAL, BEWITCHED, POEMA ARCANUS, KINTRAL, BLODEN-WEDD, CENTINEX, BRUJERIA, BITTERDUSK, WITCHBLADE and PENTAGRAM.

Picoroco was in the process of releasing the debut album from LETAL SOLARIS, a mini CD from Witchblade, the second album from KINTRAL and the DVD release of Pentagram's Reborn 2001,
already available on VHS.

Everyone interested on sending condolences can do so by sending an e-mail to Chilean label Negative Entertainment at the following address negative@negative.cl . Negative Entertainment label manager Francisco will pass the messages on to Eduardo's family.

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From MS Staff we send our condolences for friends, family and everyone who knew him.